The inside of the United Center in Chicago on Thursday night after the fourth quarter, and the Bulls season had ended. The critics voices, those of both LeBron James and the Miami Heat. Silent. The fans silence was due to shock, while the pundits just didn't have anything left to say. The Heat, led by James and Dwyane Wade, went on an 18-3 run to end Game 5, and Chicago's dream of hoist...

I’ll start out by saying…hooray. There, I’ve celebrated the Conference Title. Moving on…
As far as game 5 went, the Dallas Mavericks came from behind late to get the win in game 5, much like they did in game 4, except this time it was for the series. The Thunder are a great young team and have lots of talent and potential, but to get to the top of the summit you have to handle some bump...

The Dallas Mavericks are on a road winning streak of historic proportions in this year's playoffs and take a commanding 3-1 lead in the Western Conference finals.
This run by the Mavs has been fueled by the one thing that has always been lacking for this team in this millennium and that's a commitment to focusing on defense first. The game 4 win in OKC on Monday night is what I term a “mo...

With the one-year anniversary of the finale of “LOST” falling in two days, there is no better way to discuss the latest installation of this baffling Western Conference Final – a closer-than-it-should-have-been victory for the visiting Dallas Mavericks – than to examine some key subplots using the titles of episodes from ABC's classic show.
The Beginning of the End: The...

They’re the MVPs of the psychiatric world. Names like Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Jung are a Germanic Who’s Who in the annals of mental hygiene.
Maybe it comes natural to Deutschlanders or maybe he’s just grown into a leader. Whatever the reason, Dallas Maverick’s All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki has been practicing his own form of mind management on teammates this sea...

The Dallas Mavericks came into Tuesday’s game with eight days of rest since knocking off the defending champ LA Lakers in four games. The Thunder on the other hand, had to turn the corner quickly after just finishing their previous series with Memphis in game 7 on Sunday. Leading up to the game most of the talk centered on the rest vs. rust factor for Dallas and how the youth vs. veteran angl...

As most of you may have figured out by now I am an Oklahoma City Thunder fan, so the football-less days are sweetened a little bit by the Thunder being in the Western Conference Finals. However the only team I can think of that I hate right now is the Dallas Mavericks. Dirk is a huge match-up problem for the Thunder.
The past couple of days I wrote on two of my most hated NFL teams. Read ...

Well, I think it was Tirico on the telecast who said something like, If you’re a Mavs fan right now all you can say is wow. And that’s exactly what I was saying. Wow. It was apparent early in game 4 that the Mavs came in on Sunday with the intention of ending this series and sending the Lakers on vacation. And on the other side of things, the Lakers just didn’t bring the intensity that is...

Dreadful. Humiliating. Embarrassing.
Those are the first three words of a “Rated G” variety that comes to mind after watching the Dallas Mavericks sweep the FORMER, two-time NBA Champion Lakers into rebuilding mode.
All the other words spilling from my mouth would have made George Carlin proud.
The Dreadful
Let's start with the poor defensive rotation. I've heard Stu Lantz say numer...

The Dallas Mavericks went into the Staples Center again on Wednesday night and walked out with a 93-81 win and a 2-0 series lead. The Mavs seem to be clicking on just about every cylinder. They are just flat out playing some good basketball. The Mavs opened the game going 11 of 23 in the first quarter, looking sharp offensively and playing tough on the defensive end. The first quarter set the t...

The Lakers really know how to get my blood pressure up.
The game was unfolding exactly that I expected.
The Mavs and the Lakers would go back and forth early on. Then as the game continued, the Lakers would extend a lead attributable to stupid mistakes by the Mavs and championship poise by the Lakers.
Then in the 3rd quarter, after significant halftime adjustments, the Lakers would put the g...

Was it a smooth game? Yes. Was it slightly aloof? Yes. Was it overdramatic? Yes. Most of all, was it incredible…to watch? YES! Last night’s game was as tight as the bathroom on an airplane…and yes…the Dallas Mavericks actually went into Los Angeles and won a game that almost seemed as though it was slip-sliding away from them for most of the second quarter. Needless to say, Disco Dirk...